paulb@108 | 1 | Introduction
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paulb@108 | 2 | ------------
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paulb@108 | 3 |
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paulb@20 | 4 | See docs/index.html for the libxml2dom documentation.
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paulb@35 | 5 |
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paulb@245 | 6 | Compatibility Warnings
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paulb@245 | 7 | ----------------------
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paulb@245 | 8 |
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paulb@245 | 9 | From libxml2dom 0.4, nodeValue now returns different results in some cases.
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paulb@245 | 10 | Previously, it was possible to get the textual contents of an element using
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paulb@245 | 11 | the nodeValue property, although this is incompatible with the DOM
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paulb@245 | 12 | specifications. Instead, you should now use the textContent property to get
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paulb@245 | 13 | such data.
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paulb@245 | 14 |
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paulb@108 | 15 | Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
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paulb@108 | 16 | ------------------------------------------
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paulb@108 | 17 |
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paulb@108 | 18 | The current Web page for libxml2dom at the time of release is:
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paulb@108 | 19 |
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paulb@108 | 20 | http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html
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paulb@108 | 21 |
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paulb@108 | 22 | Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
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paulb@292 | 23 | docs/COPYING.txt, docs/lgpl-3.0.txt and docs/gpl-3.0.txt for more information.
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paulb@108 | 24 |
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paulb@108 | 25 | Dependencies
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paulb@108 | 26 | ------------
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paulb@108 | 27 |
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paulb@108 | 28 | libxml2 Tested with libxml2 2.6.17.
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paulb@108 | 29 | Use --with-python=<path to python executable> if building from
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paulb@108 | 30 | source. Previous releases of libxml2 in the 2.6 series may work,
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paulb@108 | 31 | but releases before 2.6.16 are not recommended.
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paulb@222 | 32 |
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paulb@222 | 33 | For Windows users, see also the packages for libxml2, available
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paulb@222 | 34 | from the following site:
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paulb@222 | 35 |
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paulb@222 | 36 | http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/
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paulb@222 | 37 |
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paulb@108 | 38 | Python Tested with Python 2.4.
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paulb@108 | 39 | Python releases from 2.2 onwards should be compatible with
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paulb@108 | 40 | libxml2dom. The principal requirement from such releases is the
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paulb@108 | 41 | new-style class support which permits the use of properties in
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paulb@108 | 42 | the libxml2dom implementation.
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paulb@108 | 43 |
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paulb@64 | 44 | Testing
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paulb@64 | 45 | -------
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paulb@64 | 46 |
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paulb@64 | 47 | Some of the tests require libxml2macro.py to be run on the test source code
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paulb@64 | 48 | first. Read the docstrings for the various test files before attempting to run
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paulb@145 | 49 | any of them. See also docs/NOTES_libxml2macro.txt for more information. Note
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paulb@145 | 50 | that such tests are retained for historical purposes and/or curiosity since
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paulb@145 | 51 | libxml2macro.py is no longer supported.
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paulb@64 | 52 |
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paulb@35 | 53 | Issues
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paulb@35 | 54 | ------
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paulb@35 | 55 |
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paulb@178 | 56 | The presence of xmlns attributes in serialised documents was called into
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paulb@191 | 57 | question, and the tests/namespace*.py files attempt to show the current
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paulb@191 | 58 | behaviour of libxml2dom.
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paulb@178 | 59 |
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paulb@35 | 60 | Use of importNode seems to cause some kind of memory issue, probably related
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paulb@41 | 61 | to nodes being shared across documents. This was observed in libxml2 2.6.0 but
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paulb@41 | 62 | appears to be fixed in libxml2 2.6.16.
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paulb@50 | 63 |
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paulb@78 | 64 | Even compared to minidom, importNode may seem very slow (even the
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paulb@50 | 65 | libxml2dom.macrolib implementation, too). A way is needed to get libxml2 to do
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paulb@50 | 66 | the node copying itself.
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paulb@50 | 67 |
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paulb@303 | 68 | New in libxml2dom 0.4.5 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.4.4)
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paulb@303 | 69 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@303 | 70 |
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paulb@303 | 71 | * Fixed operations involving the standard XML_NAMESPACE value, particularly
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paulb@303 | 72 | setAttributeNS.
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paulb@303 | 73 | * Introduced deletion of conflicting attributes in setAttributeNS.
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paulb@303 | 74 | * Added slightly nicer errors for parsing and serialising.
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paulb@306 | 75 | * Added some support for SOAP and XML-RPC message processing.
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paulb@303 | 76 |
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paulb@288 | 77 | New in libxml2dom 0.4.4 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.4.3)
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paulb@288 | 78 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@288 | 79 |
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paulb@292 | 80 | * Relicensed under the LGPL version 3 or later (fixing PKG-INFO file).
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paulb@288 | 81 | * Improved XMPP support for messages, presence and events.
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paulb@297 | 82 | * Added Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) package support.
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paulb@288 | 83 |
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paulb@261 | 84 | New in libxml2dom 0.4.3 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.4.2)
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paulb@261 | 85 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@261 | 86 |
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paulb@267 | 87 | * Enforced well-formedness in parse operations unless otherwise requested.
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paulb@275 | 88 | * Fixed access to null doctype properties.
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paulb@275 | 89 | * Added getElementById, firstChild and lastChild to the Node class.
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paulb@261 | 90 | * Added a __hash__ method to the Node class.
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paulb@275 | 91 | * Moved document checking into the Node class.
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paulb@275 | 92 | * Added an iterator for the NamedNodeMap class.
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paulb@261 | 93 | * Expanded the svg and events modules, including a test of SVG events.
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paulb@279 | 94 | * Split the debian-stable packages into debian-sarge and debian-etch.
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paulb@261 | 95 |
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paulb@255 | 96 | New in libxml2dom 0.4.2 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.4.1)
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paulb@255 | 97 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@255 | 98 |
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paulb@255 | 99 | * Added missing impl attribute to NamedNodeMap, fixing attribute retrieval.
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paulb@255 | 100 | * Added documentElement to Document.
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paulb@255 | 101 | * Fixed and expanded the events module.
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paulb@255 | 102 | * Added lots of functionality to the svg module.
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paulb@255 | 103 |
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paulb@250 | 104 | New in libxml2dom 0.4.1 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.4)
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paulb@250 | 105 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@250 | 106 |
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paulb@250 | 107 | * Fixed the absence of CDATA node creation and importing.
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paulb@250 | 108 |
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paulb@217 | 109 | New in libxml2dom 0.4 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.6)
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paulb@217 | 110 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@217 | 111 |
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paulb@222 | 112 | * Changed the nodeValue property to return None for various node types, as
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paulb@222 | 113 | specified in the DOM specification (Level 3).
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paulb@226 | 114 | * Fixed various "not supported" exceptions and added tests which can raise
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paulb@226 | 115 | "wrong document" exceptions.
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paulb@217 | 116 | * Introduced an Implementation class, permitting specialised node creation.
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paulb@217 | 117 | * Added SVG-specific document support.
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paulb@231 | 118 | * Made parseURI work for HTML documents.
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paulb@231 | 119 | * Fixed getElementsByTagName(NS), as reported by Christian Seiler.
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paulb@239 | 120 | * Fixed previousSibling, nextSibling and parentNode crashes using
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paulb@239 | 121 | suggestions from Christian Seiler.
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paulb@239 | 122 | * Reintroduced node comparisons using suggestions from Christian Seiler.
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paulb@242 | 123 | * Fixed the absence of the CDATA node type.
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paulb@234 | 124 | * Added the textContent property to nodes.
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paulb@239 | 125 | * Added a getDOMImplementation function.
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paulb@234 | 126 | * Added an experimental events module.
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paulb@245 | 127 | * Added an htmlencoding parameter to the parse functions, as requested by
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paulb@245 | 128 | Iliyan Peychev.
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paulb@217 | 129 |
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paulb@207 | 130 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.6 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.5)
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paulb@207 | 131 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@207 | 132 |
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paulb@207 | 133 | * Added cloneNode almost as a synonym for importNode (which, unlike in the
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paulb@207 | 134 | DOM specification, is present on all nodes).
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paulb@210 | 135 | * Introduced Debian stable package details - suggested by Robert Siemer.
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paulb@213 | 136 | * Changed libxml2mod import details to try libxmlmods - suggested by Lucian
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paulb@213 | 137 | Wischik.
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paulb@207 | 138 |
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paulb@201 | 139 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.5 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.4)
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paulb@201 | 140 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@201 | 141 |
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paulb@201 | 142 | * Fixed nodeType for HTML document elements - reported by Robert Siemer.
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paulb@201 | 143 | * Fixed string results from XPath expressions - reported by Robert Siemer.
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paulb@201 | 144 |
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paulb@191 | 145 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.4 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.3)
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paulb@191 | 146 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@191 | 147 |
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paulb@191 | 148 | * Attempted to introduce generated prefixes for attributes having namespaces
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paulb@191 | 149 | but whose names are unprefixed.
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paulb@195 | 150 | * Added support for xmlns attribute retrieval (getAttributeNS) and detection
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paulb@195 | 151 | (hasAttributeNS).
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paulb@197 | 152 | * Added the length attribute to NamedNodeMap; renamed the length method on
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paulb@197 | 153 | NodeList, adding a length attribute.
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paulb@191 | 154 |
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paulb@187 | 155 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.3 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.2)
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paulb@187 | 157 |
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paulb@187 | 158 | * Removed redundant weakref usage.
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paulb@187 | 159 | * Added explicit copyright and licensing information to source files.
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paulb@187 | 160 |
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paulb@183 | 161 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.2 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3.1)
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paulb@183 | 162 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@183 | 163 |
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paulb@183 | 164 | * Improved the xmlns attribute creation controls.
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paulb@183 | 165 |
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paulb@165 | 166 | New in libxml2dom 0.3.1 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.3)
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paulb@165 | 167 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@165 | 168 |
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paulb@165 | 169 | * Fixed empty namespace declarations on elements created with namespaceURI
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paulb@165 | 170 | set to None. Previously, such declarations were missing.
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paulb@178 | 171 | * Fixed attribute creation and introduced stricter controls over the
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paulb@178 | 172 | construction of xmlns attributes.
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paulb@165 | 173 |
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paulb@158 | 174 | New in libxml2dom 0.3 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.2.4)
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paulb@158 | 175 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@153 | 176 |
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paulb@158 | 177 | * Imposed much stricter tests on strings used with the libxml2dom API.
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paulb@158 | 178 | Strings given as arguments to methods and functions must now only contain
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paulb@158 | 179 | ASCII characters; any other character data must be provided as Unicode
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paulb@158 | 180 | objects. This change fixes various issues with XPath expressions, and
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paulb@158 | 181 | quite probably various other things.
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paulb@153 | 182 | * Fixed parentNode on Document objects (which caused xml.dom.ext.PrettyPrint
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paulb@153 | 183 | to crash).
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paulb@153 | 184 | * Added some support for the doctype attribute and related information.
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paulb@158 | 185 | * libxml2dom is now licensed under the LGPL - see docs/COPYING.txt for
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paulb@158 | 186 | details.
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paulb@153 | 187 |
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paulb@148 | 188 | New in libxml2dom 0.2.4 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.2.3)
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paulb@148 | 189 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@148 | 190 |
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paulb@148 | 191 | * Fixed Unicode conversions in the Node's xpath method.
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paulb@148 | 192 |
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paulb@135 | 193 | New in libxml2dom 0.2.3 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.2.2)
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paulb@135 | 194 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@135 | 195 |
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paulb@135 | 196 | * Fixed the parse function's docstring.
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paulb@139 | 197 | * Added the owner element to obtained attribute nodes.
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paulb@142 | 198 | * Fixed Debian package changelog distribution identifiers.
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paulb@135 | 199 |
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paulb@129 | 200 | New in libxml2dom 0.2.2 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.2.1)
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paulb@129 | 201 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@129 | 202 |
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paulb@129 | 203 | * Fixed exception raising in parseURI, adding a docstring to explain the
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paulb@129 | 204 | current limitations around HTML parsing.
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paulb@129 | 205 |
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paulb@108 | 206 | New in libxml2dom 0.2.1 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.2)
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paulb@108 | 207 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@108 | 208 |
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paulb@118 | 209 | * Moved libxml2macro script to the tools directory.
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paulb@118 | 210 | * Added getElementsByTagNameNS.
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paulb@123 | 211 | * Added a normalize implementation.
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paulb@118 | 212 | * Added HTML parsing support.
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paulb@120 | 213 | * Added prettyprinting support.
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paulb@118 | 214 | * Fixed parseURI.
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paulb@118 | 215 | * Introduced better testing for Unicode objects, especially since things
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paulb@118 | 216 | like rdflib like to subclass the unicode type, and it might be more
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paulb@118 | 217 | convenient to detect such subclasses and convert their values
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paulb@118 | 218 | automatically.
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paulb@118 | 219 | * Improved some of the API documentation.
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paulb@118 | 220 | * Introduced better suppression of warnings, network access, and other
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paulb@118 | 221 | potentially intrusive libxml2 features.
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paulb@118 | 222 | * Reorganised the documentation, expanding the README.txt file at the
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paulb@118 | 223 | expense of the HTML documentation, but removing older, less relevant
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paulb@118 | 224 | information.
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paulb@118 | 225 | * Added Debian package support.
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paulb@50 | 226 |
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paulb@108 | 227 | New in libxml2dom 0.2 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.1.3)
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paulb@108 | 228 | ------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@108 | 229 |
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paulb@118 | 230 | * Adopted libxml2macro code within the libxml2dom classes, removing any
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paulb@118 | 231 | dependencies on the libxml2 module - this makes everything much faster
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paulb@118 | 232 | and virtually removes any necessity to use libxml2macro.
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paulb@118 | 233 | * Improved attribute and document node handling.
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paulb@118 | 234 | * Introduced document reference management.
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paulb@118 | 235 | * Introduced NodeList wrapper objects.
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paulb@59 | 236 |
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paulb@108 | 237 | New in libxml2dom 0.1.3 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.1.2)
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paulb@108 | 238 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@108 | 239 |
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paulb@118 | 240 | * Fixed createElement.
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paulb@118 | 241 | * Introduced experimental libxml2macro tools, tests and libraries.
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paulb@108 | 242 |
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paulb@108 | 243 | New in libxml2dom 0.1.2 (Changes since libxml2dom 0.1.1)
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paulb@108 | 244 | --------------------------------------------------------
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paulb@59 | 245 |
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paulb@118 | 246 | * Fixed getAttributeNode and getAttributeNodeNS.
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paulb@118 | 247 | * Added comment node creation.
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paulb@118 | 248 | * Fixed empty namespace usage with elements and attributes.
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paulb@118 | 249 | * Introduced usage of the libxml2 file and memory parsing features.
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paulb@118 | 250 | * Introduced suppression of DTD retrieval and validation as the default
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paulb@118 | 251 | behaviour.
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paulb@118 | 252 | * Added experimental XPath method support.
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paulb@59 | 253 |
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paulb@108 | 254 | New in libxml2dom 0.1.1
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paulb@108 | 255 | -----------------------
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paulb@59 | 256 |
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paulb@118 | 257 | * Fixed text node creation.
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paulb@118 | 258 | * Fixed setAttributeNS.
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paulb@118 | 259 | * Added encoding parameters to convenience methods.
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paulb@118 | 260 | * Added the missing previousSibling property.
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paulb@118 | 261 | * Added release number to the package.
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paulb@59 | 262 |
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paulb@108 | 263 | Release Procedures
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paulb@108 | 264 | ------------------
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paulb@59 | 265 |
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paulb@108 | 266 | Update the libxml2dom/__init__.py and libxml2dom/macrolib/__init__.py
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paulb@108 | 267 | __version__ attributes.
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paulb@108 | 268 | Change the version number and package filename/directory in the documentation.
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paulb@108 | 269 | Change code examples in the documentation if appropriate.
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paulb@108 | 270 | Update the release notes (see above).
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paulb@108 | 271 | Update the package release notes (in the packages directory).
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paulb@108 | 272 | Check the setup.py file and ensure that all package directories are mentioned.
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paulb@183 | 273 | Check the release information in the PKG-INFO file.
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paulb@108 | 274 | Tag, export.
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paulb@108 | 275 | Archive, upload.
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paulb@108 | 276 | Make packages (see below).
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paulb@108 | 277 | Update PyPI, PythonInfo Wiki, Vaults of Parnassus entries.
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paulb@59 | 278 |
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paulb@108 | 279 | Making Packages
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paulb@108 | 280 | ---------------
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paulb@59 | 281 |
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paulb@125 | 282 | To make Debian-based packages:
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paulb@125 | 284 | 1. Create new package directories under packages if necessary.
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paulb@118 | 285 | 2. Make a symbolic link in the distribution's root directory to keep the
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paulb@210 | 286 | Debian tools happy; choose one of the following:
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paulb@59 | 287 |
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paulb@125 | 288 | ln -s packages/ubuntu-hoary/python2.4-libxml2dom/debian/
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paulb@285 | 289 | ln -s packages/debian-sarge/python2.3-libxml2dom/debian/
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paulb@285 | 290 | ln -s packages/debian-etch/python-libxml2dom/debian/
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paulb@108 | 291 |
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paulb@118 | 292 | 3. Run the package builder:
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paulb@108 | 293 |
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paulb@118 | 294 | dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
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paulb@108 | 295 |
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paulb@118 | 296 | 4. Locate and tidy up the packages in the parent directory of the
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paulb@118 | 297 | distribution's root directory.
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